Chapter 416: A Turning Point Appears

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####【Bronze Blood Tears】

When Ao Li's Dragon Claw was only three inches from the Black-robed Person's throat, the four walls of the cave suddenly oozed bronze‑colored blood beads. Those Liquid Metals condensed in the air into three hundred sixty‑faced celestial prisms, reflecting the darkness tide released by the Black-robed Person back into the mother nest's stomach sac. Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye suddenly flashed a warning—she saw a Quantum Afterimage of an ancient Dragon Clan sage curled deep within each prism.

"It's the Ancestor Dragon Blood Sacrifice Formation!" Ao Li's Inverse Scale quivered violently, and those prisms resonated with her shattered jade spine. When the first refracted ray pierced the dark shield, three hundred embryos in the Black-robed Person's abdomen cried out simultaneously, and the nerve bundle linked by the umbilical cords began to transport energy in reverse.

Zi Xiao Zhenren suddenly pointed his sword at the dome, and the Sword Qi of the Taiyi Splitting Light Sword split into a Data Torrent within the prism array. Xuan Yuan Hao's mutated divine beast claw drove into the ground, and the quantum‑ized flesh instantly solidified into a bronze decoder—where the sword light swept, the cave wall revealed the Mo School founder's inscription from three hundred years ago, the "Forbidden Art Reverse Nourishment Talisman."

####【Reverse Flow String】

Lín Jìn's Star Sand in his right hand suddenly, uncontrollably, pierced the prism core, and Nirvana Fire rose upward along the bronze blood beads. Within the flames, a monitoring scene from the seventh underground level of Polaris Tower appeared: three hundred caretakers were carving a cradle with fragments of the Abyss Return Ruler, and the spots where wood chips drifted corresponded exactly to the locations on the cave wall where blood was now seeping.

"So this is the Anchor Point..." Gongxu Yue's mechanical arm suddenly disassembled, gears meshing with the energy released by the prisms to reconstruct a phantom of the Heavenly Craft Furnace. When the furnace core quantum‑entangled with the Black-robed Person's cluster of embryos, a projection of the Mo School's mechanized city foundation suddenly appeared beneath everyone's feet—those gears devoured by the mother nest were now gnawing the nurturing system's nerve bundles in reverse across an alternate dimension.

Ao Li's dragon horn suddenly sprouted bronze circuitry, and the memory of the ancestor dragon's lingering soul flooded into the Consciousness Sea. She saw the truth of the battle that occurred seventy thousand years ago: when the mother nest was about to devour the entire Dragon Clan, three hundred elders voluntarily refined their spines into celestial prisms, sealing the mother nest's core within the Singularity of a Klein Bottle.

####【Umbilical Cord Broken Melody】

The embryos in the Black-robed Person's abdomen suddenly burst, and silver amniotic fluid vaporized into an Antimatter cloud within the prism array. Zi Xiao Zhenren seized the chance to hurl a Benming Sword projectile, and the Sword Qi piercing the quantum cloud unexpectedly carried the scent of disinfectant from the caretaker facility—memories of the allied forces absorbed by the Black-robed Person were being transmuted into a God‑Slaying Code under the prisms' refraction.

"No!!" The Black-robed Person's hood was flipped back by the Sword Qi, revealing a skull structure studded with suction cups. Three hundred Bronze umbilical cords erupted from his celestial crown, but they jade‑transformed and disintegrated the moment they touched the prisms. Gongxu Yue suddenly vomited a blood clot laced with gears; her mechanical eye showed the mother nest's stomach sac vibrating at hyperfrequency—reverse‑nourished Dark Energy had ruptured the dimensional membrane.

Ao Li's Inverse Scale completed its final resonance at this moment, and the prisms of the Ancestor Dragon Blood Sacrifice Formation converged into the opening of a Klein Bottle. The instant the bottle's mouth inverted, the Black-robed Person along with the mother nest's nerve bundles were sucked into the Singularity, and the remaining Star Sand in the cave instantly vaporized into the disinfectant lamp glow of the caretaker facility.

####【Residual Echo Afterglow】

Lín Jìn fell to his knees, his Star Sand‑filled right hand absorbing the quantum tear traces emitted by the prisms. Countless caretaker facility surveillance images flashed across his retina, finally freezing on a certain ventilation duct—an orphan list hidden back then was glowing, those names turning into light specks that pierced the dimensional barrier.

"Cognitive pollution rate... decreasing?" Gongxu Yue's mechanical eye popped up an incredulous data stream. Her mechanized box auto‑reassembled, and within the core Ronglu floated half a fragment of a Bronze umbilical cord, its surface etched with a reverse‑nourishment formula.

Zi Xiao Zhenren suddenly pointed his sword northward, and the Taiyi Pure Light illuminated a hidden compartment deep within the cave: there lay a humanoid mechanism of the Mo School founder, with a half‑segment of an Abyss Return Ruler inserted at its heart. The ruler's body was engraved with the names of the allied forces, and Ao Li saw her true Dragon Clan name across three hundred parallel timelines.

"Now that's a true turning point," Xuan Yuan Hao's mutated beast claw gently touched the mechanism, and the quantum‑ized flesh instantly reverted to its original state. Deep within his pupils reflected a hologram of Polaris Tower, its apex's celestial instrument rotating in reverse.